Tag: running
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Friday 5K Run
Esplanade 5K Run I went out for a nice 5K run on The Esplanade this afternoon. My last training run before the BAA Half Marathon on Sunday. It was in the mid-70’s and nice and sunny. Just perfect. I appreciated the fact that we wont have many more of these days and before we know…
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Lake Winnie Weekend
We had a great weekend in New Hampshire running the 24th Annual Fred Brown Lake Winnipesaukee Relay Race. The Melrose Running Club had four teams this year and we all ran pretty strong. Our fastest team came in 2nd out of 29 teams in their category (MIXED OPEN) and 17th out of 71 total teams.…
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Sunday Long Run
Sunday Long Run recap The Sunday long run today was 16.2 miles but I opted for the 8 mile course instead. I had planned on this course anyway, but some yard work from yesterday was haunting me this morning. I copied and pasted my splits from Garmin Connect. Split Time Distance Avg Pace Summary 1:19:15.0 8.00…
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Physical Therapy and Wisdom
Physical Therapy I had my fourth PT session this morning. Hilda and Nick over at Harvard-Vanguard in Somerville are helping me recover from my hamstring problems. It is a slow process and I am hoping that eventually I will be able to put this injury behind me (no pun intended) and get back to my…
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London Olympics, August 7th, 2012
London Olympics 2012 I have been watching events out of sequence on my DVR and staying up too late. I watched Oscar Pistorius “Blade Runner” last night in the 400M semi-finals.It was really quite remarkable. I wondered if he had some sort of advantage because he could use different “blades” for different conditions, or might…
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Weekend in Review: Now That’s Living!
What a weekend Friday night we watched the opening of the London 2012 Olympics. I don’t care what the critics say, it was smashing, bloody awesome and truly brilliant! We were entertained, moved and laughed out loud so many times. It was such an engaging production on so many levels. The music was so evocative,…